Investment
Price: 2.700 Euros (incl. VAT)
Includes food, lodging, and workshop!
Accommodation will be in shared bungalows (2 people per bungalow) with balcony, kitchenette, and private bathrooms.
When?
October 28th to November 5, 2022
We start on October 28th at 5 pm
We will end on November 5th at 1 pm.
Your arrival day at the location is the 28th of October after 1 pm. Please do not plan to come earlier as our team will not be ready setting up the place for you before this time and day.
Where?
INEA Yoga Retreat Centre
St. George, 49080, Corfu, Greece
Right on the beach and next to taverns
Your 8-Day Deep Dive into the world of Radical Honesty
This 8-Day Intensive Residential Workshop is fully-immersive into Radical Honesty – the only format including naked work and hour-long life stories. For 8 full days, you’ll get to experience yourself in a raw and vulnerable way, learn to create real connection, make true friends, enhance your aliveness, and work on letting go of the past and design your future.
You will be guided by Marvin Schulz, one of Europe’s most experienced Radical Honesty facilitators, and Jura Glo, founder of TransformWork in Berlin, Germany. The duo will support you in expanding your bodily awareness and taking charge of your attention to ground yourself fully in the present moment and speak from a broader perspective about your current experience.
Reconnect, rejuvenate, and relax
We picked the perfect location for you to recharge on sunlight and the sea.
You will be staying in the resort of St. George on the South West coast of Corfu with the finest sandy beaches, tropical plants, and stunning landscapes. Our retreat center comes with hammocks, loungers, and a swimming pool. Each apartment is equipped with air conditioning, rain showers, a modern kitchen, comfy beds, and balconies.
You’ll have all the comforts you need to make yourself feel at home and turn this workshop into an unforgettable experience while making friends for a lifetime.
(Note: If you’re interested in participating in a future Radical Honesty Trainer’s Training, attendance at an RH 8-day intensive workshop is a prerequisite for attending the TT.)
Here’s what you will learn at the workshop
Develop skills in telling the truth and being without filters
Connect to yourself and others in a deep, honest and compassionate way
Attune to your body senses and awaken your aliveness
Practice asking for what you want in a direct, non-manipulative way
Experience being fully present and grounded in the moment
Expand your awareness and grow in power as a creative human being
Express whatever arises in the moment: excitement, attraction, anger, fear, etc.
Our Daily Rhythm and Agenda
We will begin each day with conscious movement meditation, followed by breakfast and a morning session of teaching, group conversations and paired exercises. We will then have a healthy lunch and an afternoon siesta. After the break, we will continue working with “hot seat” work, teaching, meditation, movement or dancing, and more paired and small group exercises.
After dinner, one by one, each person will spend about 45 minutes telling the whole story of their life. By the time the workshop has ended, each participant will have told their own life story and will have heard the telling of everyone else’s. Each person will also receive a copy of their Life Story video recording. They can later watch the video with their parents, (ex-)partners, siblings, lovers and friends with whom they have unfinished business in life and use the video-watching as a way to start honest conversations and create connection.
On the fifth or sixth day, we’ll all get naked. One at a time we’ll stand in front of the group and talk about what we like and don’t like about our body. We’ll also tell our sexual histories: when we first discovered we were a sexual being, when we first masturbated, whether we prefer doing it with men/women/vegetables/minerals/etc., how many partners we’ve had sex with, our favorite and least favorite sexual experiences, and so on. Though we’ll probably get embarrassed, with good coaching and complete sharing of the truth and support from the group we will face our shame/fears/taboos—and get over them.
People often presume that Naked Work is some sort of “sexy” experience. Usually, the experience is anything but sexy. Mostly the naked work is about embarrassment and shame and suffering—and about how our avoidance of those aspects of ourselves controls our lives. Quite often, the participants who, beforehand, scare themselves the most about doing this exercise are the very ones who benefit the most from it!
Then, together, we’ll review the videos of our Naked Work. One by one, each person will sit in front of a television screen and observe their video while receiving feedback about it. For some people, the process of watching oneself on a screen, naked, while talking about their sex life can be a more confrontational process than the original experience of standing naked before the group. Again, the willingness to face the experience and live through it can provide a decrease in the intensity of the sensations related to shame/embarrassment and a change in perspective on one’s own life in the direction of compassion for oneself as well as compassion for others. And then, most likely, we’ll appreciate ourselves and others for doing this work and live more fulfilling lives with less shame about ourselves and our bodies.
Just as with the Life Story video, each participant will receive a copy of their Naked Work video to share with important people in their life (the original files of those recordings will be deleted).
As you can imagine, by the sixth or seventh day, people will have gotten to know themselves and each other pretty well. What happens—and it happens again and again with very diverse groups of people—is pretty much the same each time: everyone falls in love with everyone else. Now, isn’t that a hell of a thing? Imagine all the time and energy we have wasted putting on acts and pretending to be someone we’re not in hopes that others will love us for our performance, when actually what we needed all along was to drop the act and tell the truth—and be ourselves!
Dr. Brad Blanton—Radical Honesty founder—about the workshop
“The 8-Day workshop is an experiential course in living out loud, increasing your capacity for intimacy and creativity, and living your life on purpose, instead of residing in the jail of your mind and reacting to life’s circumstances while believing you’re in control.
“In our workshops, we get together to make some agreements about what we will do together for the next nine days. One of the most important agreements is that we will tell the truth to each other completely for the next nine days. If that was all that occurred, and there was no other agenda whatsoever, the course would be powerful because the power of that agreement alone is incredible.”
Here’s what former workshop participants say about the leaders:
“I attended a weekend Radical Honesty workshop in Berlin, where Marvin was the facilitator. I imagine his style of leading the workshops and guiding participants in the exercises is similar and loyal to the founder Brad Blanton's approach, and I appreciate him for that. If you're interested in attending a workshop led by Marvin, I suggest that you don't hesitate and overthink and just do it. I recommend his work and commitment to practice Radical Honesty. I have also become his friend since meeting him through workshops.” - Morgana from New York
“Over the course of my life as a counselor, coach, and hypnotherapist, I’ve attended at least a hundred workshops. The Radical Honesty weeklong-workshop with Sebastian and Marvin in Greece is definitely in the top drawer of all my workshop experiences. Some of the techniques that I saw practiced in this workshop will be useful additions to my repertoire of communication skills. For example, “I appreciate you for…”, “I resent you for…”, “I imagine that you…”. These techniques really enhance honesty in human interactions. When it comes to my own radical honesty I am now a confirmed “RadHon”. - Richard from Ottawa
“I’ve been to multiple workshops run by Dr. Brad Blanton and others. From each one, I’ve become more direct, awake and connected with the people in the workshops and people in my home life. The workshop led by Marvin was the best weekend workshop I’ve been to and I’ll be going back for more with him in 2019. If you’re thinking to go to a workshop to see what the Radical Honesty fuss is all about, Marvin Schulz embodies and teaches with clarity, passion, vigor, and humor, and you’ll be lead through your own ways of being unusually honest by a leader with great skill, who fuses compassion and real power.” - Alex from Bristol
FAQ about this 8-Day Intensive Retreat
Lodging
You will stay in a beautiful shared bungalow with one other person.
Who can participate?
Anyone! No prior experience with Radical Honesty is required. You will, though, have to agree to the workshop’s commitments: to keep confidentiality, to tell the truth, to support others in telling the truth, to be on time and present, to allow the trainers to coach you and to ask for what you want. We also recommend you read Brad Blanton’s books Radical Honesty and/or Practicing Radical Honesty before the workshop.
Commitment
Please plan your travels in a way for you to be present at each session and for the entire workshop. To make this workshop work for you and everyone else, we will all agree to take part in every session, including the naked work, body movement, meditation, and telling of life stories. If you have any concerns with any of the programs, let us know in advance.
How can I join?
The group is strictly limited to 16 participants. In order to join, write us a message. You will have to pay a deposit to reserve your spot. We expect this workshop to be fully booked. So, if you want to attend, we suggest that you book your spot sooner rather than later.
How much does this cost?
The total price for the workshop, food, and housing is €2,700. To secure your spot, you can pay a non-refundable deposit of €600 now and the balance before the workshop starts. We can negotiate a flexible payment plan according to your needs, and the whole amount has to be paid in full before the start of the workshop.
Cancellation Policy
Booking this workshop is a deep commitment to yourself and the retreat really begins once you decided to join. If you decide to cancel, your deposit is not refundable under no circumstances. If you decide to cancel 30 days before the event, no extra payment will be due. If you cancel up to 14 days before the event, 50% of the workshop fee is due and you will receive an an invoice for this.